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Well, it’s been a while...

But after ten years teaching Games Design and Illustration (amongst other things) I’m back out in the world.

Looking to focus on making Comics and Character based Concept Art and genre Illustration.

See you around,

hesir.
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Summer 2014

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Wow... Hi... s'bin a while again...

Hope everyone is well...

Though to be fair looking at the people on here who are just adding faves to the their fave galleries, it's a bit odd seeing many of them don't have their own work up...

Did this place turn into Pintrest while I was gone?

...

Anyway, If you want to see where I've been playing lately...

Go see! - apopheniainc.wordpress.com

...or, for more rapid updates - hesir on Twitter

I have an Observational Drawing blog over here - observationaldrawing.wordpress…

We (Paul Starkey and I) are hoping to get back to Rabbit Heart (the game) over here - rabbitheartgame.wordpress.com

Oh and those of you with a bent towards art education or creative thinking in education, you could try taking a look at this stuff...

My Masters Degree research... apopheniainc.wordpress.com/cat…

Hope you are all having fun...

gareth.
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Hey!

I'm still alive... and working on stuff!

Honest!

Go see! - apopheniainc.wordpress.com

...or for more rapid updates - hesir on Twitter

Hope you are all having fun...

gareth.
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April 2011

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Hey...

Okay, so I'm not as active on here as I once was, I'm mmm, semi-partially-active, maybe - laughs... I still upload new stuff, and I fave the odd thing from my watches and I comment back on comments, if there is anything to comment back on...

For the most part though I'm more active in other places, my blog, and my twitter and FB feeds for example...

I upgraded my phone to a mobile platform - HTC Desire HD, which I can heartily recommend btw - and so am now blogging and Tweeping on the go... I am so goddamn 2011 it hurts!

In general news, well, I'm still teaching (3D design, CAD for Fine Art, Creative & Media/Illustration & Design for Entertainment Media, Design for the Public Realm, Animation and Games Design - Wow! That looks like a lot of stuff when written in order like that!), all of which I love; as well as still re-aligning (is that the industry term/pro-speak) my professional freelance portfolio towards more pure Illustration and Concept Art.

I'm actually teaching more contracted hours than before (until of course our far-sighted Gov/t decide to replace us all with manuals on "Building Steam Engines & Other Useful Industrial Revolution Style Activities That Will Stop You Poncing About With A Pencil & Get You A Real Job" - ITS 2011! YOU CAN'T EXPECT S.T.E.M. TO SOLVE EVERYTHING ON ITS OWN YOU MORONS! IN FACT IT WILL BE THE COUNTRY'S DOWNFALL IF YOU DO!!! Ahem...) aaaaand I am earning a comfortable wage, which seems to have freed me up to be much more creative of late... I guess working with the students has added to that too...

I'm getting out and sketching more and collaborating with other artists more... see my various blog posts (below) for details on that...

I'm having fun as a creative... yay me!


Anyroad up, here's where you can find my shizz at, if'n y'all are interested...


APOPHENIA Inc. -  MY REGULAR BLOG - apopheniainc.wordpress.com/&nb… Wherein you will find out what I'm up to in my regular day job type activities... a bit more about my design process too (inc how too videos), and you can see photos and witness the odd rant about stuff I care about.

My E-mail - hesir@hotmail.co.uk - I am actively seeking Illustration and Games Design Concept and Character Design work MAIL ME!

COROFLOT - www.coroflot.com/hesir - MY PROFESSIONAL FREELANCE PORTFOLIO

YOUTUBE - www.youtube.com/user/TheHesir - FILM/Animation

MYSPACE - www.myspace.com/trudysrubymonk… - MUSIC/Soundtrack stuff

but mostly you'll find me on TWITTER - twitter.com/hesir - I'm part of the #hullmeetup drinky crew...

Oh... and I'm in the process of putting together a NORTHMAN ILLUSTRATION "WIX" site over at www.wix.com/northmanillustrati…


Other URL's that will find me...

FROZEN TEARS - frozentearsfilm.wordpress.com/… The western Movie Script & Production Design project that I've been noodling with...

RABBIT HEART - Game Concept - rabbitheartgame.wordpress.com/… The games design project I've also been noodling with... a piece of concept art from this project was recently featured on WWW.io9.com too, which was cool...

THE CTHULHIAD - A HORROR NOVEL with pictures - thecthulhiad.wordpress.com/ - At last a home for all the little bits and pieces of this story...

and look... yet another... HESIRION - hesirion.wordpress.com/ A set of short fantasy stories set in the same world... though I will be adding more images to this one soon hopefully... Jeebbus bless wordpress eh?!!

and last but not least, LINKEDIN - www.linkedin.com/in/garethslei… - LinkedIn, a professional networking forum

...

Once again I hope everyone I used to chat with on a more regular basis on here are all okay... hook up on Twitter if you are on it.

Cheers again.

gareth,
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Endless wandering, past raging warriors, their crusader emblems rippling in the the light summer breeze, throat dry, feet begin to stumble... But will our hero ever find a boozer that is not showing the football and instead just have a juke box playing...

It somehow doesn't seem likely...

Any road up... just recently, as you might have noticed, I've been obsessing with poster ideas...

This all came about following my falling in love with the work of Jay Ryan whose work you can see at: www.thebirdmachine.com/ ... or in a youtube interview, www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAO8PQ… ; and Tara McPherson's great poster art too  or www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEUZvj…

Then on a recent trip to Manchester I picked up a book by Jason Munn, again whose work you can find here [link] , as well as in a youtube interview at [link] ;

And it opened up a whole new world of great art being created by what seems to be a surge of young new minimalist graphic designer/poster artists out there.

Including the UK's own Olly Moss, www.ollymoss.com/ check out his page FILMS IN BLACK AND RED whose excellent movie poster reworkings you might have seen in the pages of Empire magazine.

To see some of the others check out Sam's Myth's excellent post on samsmyth.blogspot.com/2010/05/… covering the best of the rest of the minimalist movie posters creators...

All of which hark back to the great work of Saul Bass and those excellent classic Penguin edition covers...

I love this stuff - especially those Hitchcock posters by Matt Needle www.mattneedle.co.uk/ and am currently thinking hard about using this as the inspiration for setting up some quick fire college projects for students...

g.

I'm pulling some of my projects together in other places...

Blogs!!! NOooooo! It's true!

apopheniainc.wordpress.com/&nb… Wherein you will find out what I'm up to in my regular day job type activities...

frozentearsfilm.wordpress.com/… The western movie script project that I've been noodling with...

rabbitheartgame.wordpress.com/… The games design project I've also been noodling with...

and even...

thecthulhiad.wordpress.com/ - At last a home for all the little bits and pieces of this story...

and look... yet another... hesirion.wordpress.com/ &… I will be adding more images to this one soon hopefully...

Jeebbus bless wordpress eh?

Other URL's that will find me...

hesir@hotmail.co.uk

www.coroflot.com/hesir - PORTFOLIO

www.youtube.com/user/TheHesir - FILM

www.myspace.com/trudysrubymonk… - MUSIC

www.linkedin.com/in/garethslei… - LinkedIn

and even on twitter.com/hesir - Twitter

Hope everyone I used to chat with on here is okay...

Cheers again.
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